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Everything is made from recycled something these days, that's not a problem. The tolerances are what causes problems. A 200t is not really a log pile saw you should be using a back handle for ground work or the climbing fraternity will haul you off and have you flogged with a strop Spud will probably recommend a supplier, he likes doing 220 t repairs.

Way beyond our capabilities then, I'll just keep pulling it till it floods

It's still up and at £162, a lot for a jigsaw puzzle but somebody wants it.

Aren't type C recommended when working around other cutters rather than in trees ?

I could be tha Fibonacci sequence applies, the so called golden ratio that appears in nature regularly.

Do you have a mark on the trigger to show where 80% throttle occurs ? I don't understand your logic and will not be convinced any saw should be run at reduced revs. Agree to differ and all that (but not really)

The wood yard owner where I worked said to me "There's no mercy in a saw"

That's just you, my 135 starts no trouble and I can undo the oil cap with my finger and thumb. A friend of mine bought a MS181 same time as I got my 135 and he had it back to the shop 5 times as it wouldn't oil the bar. It's about 3 years old now and his 181 is a pig to start and runs like a bag of, he's not neglected it either. If I was going for one now I think I would look at the Echo CS-310ES

Saws are not meant to run at part throttle, this is counterproductive and will not cut faster than a small saw as the chain speed will be reduced. You'll just wear the saw out quicker.

I have an old 036 I bought to play about with. If it stopped working and I couldn't fix it its a 20 year old saw and I would go out and replace it. Get something that works and use your 028 as a project saw and buy a cheap saw for the work you need to do like my 135 or a MS181.

Study Walbro and Zama diaphragm carbs to see how they work. Here's a simplified youtube to get you started. You'll see that the valves are part of the carb. There's a test to see if the needle valve is sealing shown in the Walbro video (second one) Strip your carb and clean it out then put it back together and check everything is in the right place and the right way up. [ame] [/ame][ame] [/ame]

Get some amalgamating tape from Screwfix (other places supply as well)

You can buy a little pump wedge specially designed for the job, opens a gap up to get at the lock button for when you leave your keys in the car.

There are half a dozen pairs of safety glasses dotted round my shed , 2 pairs on a shelf as you go in so no excuse for not putting them on.

It's normal for there to be a fast idle setting for the start after choke is shut off, is there a latch on the throttle or do you have to wedge the trigger with your foot I had to give the L screw a tweak to richen it up but I still have to use fast idle sometimes when the saw is warm. Check youtube to get the hang of what they sound like running rich and weak. [ame] [/ame]

Cut a slot in them with a Dremel and make them into proper screws

When trees go bad. From the people who brought you loads of other sensational crap like ice road truckers. It must have been pretty scary to be stuck there though. Had there been work done on the road to upset the roots?

The latter saws are just Dolmar with no Sachs involved aren't they .?

He was on the naughty step

It's snowing quite heavily here. Met office has a yellow warning (not the don't eat yellow snow one)

He said it first !

A friend of mine uses a Screwfix 2000w Titan saw for firewood and it's not silent but it's nowhere near the noise of a petrol saw. Biggest noise is the chain going round the bar. Well worth the £50 it cost him

Do they make Ssangyong noodles in the same factory as the cars ? Used to like their spicy noodles not had any for ages.

Spliffing old chap

There's a Silver Birch down our garden. It was a sapling when we came here 30 years ago and I ignored it then it somehow became something with 4 leaders all about 10" thick and growing over our and the neighbours gardens either side so I took a couple of the trunks out and trimmed the side branches. It put out a load of epicormic growth and the two remaining trunks have thickened even more and it is now about 40' tall so another trunk is going to be firewood as soon as I get round it again. There's a Hawthorn tree behind it that keeps getting butchered into a lollipop as well and it seems to thrive on it and I have a couple of small wall side Worcester Pearmain Apple trees growing. Cut the tops off the Birches and they will bush out is my finding. I also find that trees seem to grow unaided by me, I only planted the apples but I had Rowan, Cherry, Birch and Ash plus the Hawthorn and the garden is not big enough for all that lot and the stuff my wife wants to grow so the trees lost.